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A May 2016 day out in Macao that ended at the Giant Panda Pavilion on Coloane, watching a panda demolish its bamboo lunch one branch at a time.

Macao gets filed under casinos and egg tarts, but our clearest memory from May 2016 is a panda. Out on Coloane, away from the neon, the Giant Panda Pavilion at Seac Pai Van Park is where we lost the best part of an hour.

A giant panda sitting upright with its mouth open, holding a pile of leafy bamboo in the Macao Giant Panda Pavilion
Mid-lunch and mid-sentence, apparently. The bamboo did not stand a chance.

You come for the black-and-white bear, you stay because it eats like it is being paid by the branch. The rest of Macao deserves its own write-up one day; the panda simply got there first.